Professor Jose Canseco Teaches Us About Gravity On Twitter

Jose Canseco’s Twitter account is a bit like an online campfire. With the fearless former baseball player as our learned scout leader, we snuggle into our virtual sleeping bags and await his wise “Canseco-isms” as we lick marshmallow and chocolate from our sticky fingers.

Governments think truth is a poison that will kill them

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 15, 2013

O.o

Now imagine you’re an impressionable college freshman, stuck in the front row of Physics 101. “It’s just a general requirement,” you tell yourself. “I want to study art, not science” you say. But then Professor Canseco walks in and starts dropping some truth bombs about a simple concept: Gravity.

Ancient gravity was much weaker

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

You ever wonder why nothing REALLY big exists today in nature — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

elephants today eight tons supersaurs two hundred tons a totally different world. why? — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

Animal tissue of muscles and ligaments could not support huge dinosaurs even standing up or pump blood up 60 foot necks

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

Gravity had to be weaker to make dinosaurs nimble

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

My theory is the core of the planet shifted when single continent formed to keep us in a balanced spin — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

The land was farther away from the core and had much less gravity so bigness could develop and dominate — Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

I may not be 100% right but think about it.How else could 30 foot leather birds fly?

— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) February 19, 2013

Suddenly you doubt your academic track. “How could I choose art, when such a beautiful and mysterious world of knowledge was hidden beneath my nose this whole time?” It’s not your fault, impressionable college freshman. It’s the Professor Canseco effect.